The global decline of wild bee populations is alarming. Landscapes characterised by intensive agriculture offer hardly any suitable habitats. Isolated local efforts are often not...
New Research Maps Optimal Locations For Climate-Fighting Reforestation
New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has created the most accurate maps yet...
Tree Rings Reveal Increasing Rainfall Seasonality In The Amazon
Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are...
Wildfires Could Be Harming Our Oceans And Disrupting Their Carbon Storage
Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia research shows. Dr. Brian Hunt, professor in the Institute...
Prescribing Fewer Antibiotics Might Not Be Enough To Combat Threat Of ‘Superbugs’
Antimicrobial resistance is still spreading in the environment despite a reduction in the amounts of antibiotic drugs prescribed, according to a new study led by...
AI Perceived More Negatively Than Climate Science Or Science In General
ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since....
Climate Change And Interactions Between Species Are Changing Distribution Of Brown Bears In Europe
An international team led by the University of Seville, La Sapienza University of Rome and the Institute of Nature Conservation in Poland has studied how...
Krill Fishing In The Antarctic: Overlaps With Consequences
Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: it is an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and...
Spain’s Impossible Dream Of ‘Green’ Electricity – OpEd
Thousands of wind turbines and millions of solar panels generated a massive blackout Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: "To dream the impossible dream of clean,...
Juvenile Great Hammerhead Sharks Rely On South Florida’s Biscayne Bay
A new study from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science finds that juvenile great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran), a...